Sunday, 1 May 2005

may to-do list

House:

  • Strip table
  • Make sign for the house's name
  • Repaint kitchen doors
  • Clean coal cellar
  • Sweep and arrange furnace room
  • Hang DEW's geranium painting in sunroom
  • Clean fridges
  • Wash basement curtains
  • Scrub laundryroom
  • Sweep garage
  • Paint porch
  • Wash and iron curtains
  • Bring out summer dresses and put away winter

    Garden

  • Plant tomatoes and basil cucumbers, 8th
  • Plant annuals
  • Powerwash north fence
  • Stain north fence
  • Plant sunflowers in corner by gate?
  • Border north
  • Grass bishop's weed
  • Thin spinach, carrots, lettuce
  • Border easement
  • Get lots of vegetable pulp and coffee grounds (ongoing)

    Errands

  • Stepstool for kitchen
  • Summer bathrobe for RDC
  • Send books to Suspect
  • HD: Another stepping stone for north side, pavers for along curb, something to restrain raspberries
  • Another tomato
  • OD: Binder for scrapbook, binder for CDs
  • Fabric or fur for Booboo's paws?

    Lisaism

  • HAO's shower, 7th
  • Botanic Garden plant sale, 7th
  • Mother's Day, 8th
  • SHM's arrival, early!
  • Whatever the whoever Sith are doing, 19th
  • PLT's b-day, 24th
  • My b-day, 25th
  • Life of Pi, 26th

    Reading:

  • Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose
  • John Leonard, Lonesome Rangers: Homeless Minds, Promised Lands, Fugitive Cultures
  • Christopher Paolini, Eragon
  • Michael Pollan, The Botany of Desire
  • José Saramago, History of the Seige of Lisbon
  • José Saramago, Journey to Portugal
  • Jane Yolen, Briar Rose

    Exercise

  • Bike to work
  • Bike to gym
  • Swim!